The wind finally subsided at 4.30am, very broken sleep last night as the wind was gusting so hard it felt like the tent was about to lift off at any minute with us inside it!
Today we have just 1 thing on our minds & that was PIE! Pie Town was at the end of today’s ride & we all could not wait!
We had 70km of riding to get there so we started out as early as we could as we did not know if the wind of yesterday would pick up again & the book & route map both stated if you wanted pie the cafes’ were only open limited hours so we knew we needed to be there by 4pm at the latest.
The 1st 20km of today’s ride was slightly downhill so we made exceptional time, then we turned off that road & headed on a 52km stretch of road to Pie Town, the wind had picked up & was quite cold today but it was on our sides the whole day so we managed to reach Pie Town by 2:30pm.
Pie Town is a very small town of only 60 residents & the only 2 shops (apart from the post office) are 2 cafes 1 at the top of the hill , the other at the bottom both selling pie.
On day 1 of our ride we meet Paul the English geezer who had ridden from South to North & he told us we must visit the cafe at the top of the hill so that is exactly what we did - The Pie-o-neer Café. http://www.pie-o-neer.com/index.html
Kathy (the owner) & Megan the waitress greeted us all with open arms making us feel so welcome.
We all has 2 slices of pie each, Jo- Apple crumble then Chocolate Cream, Scott - Pecan & Oat then Coconut Cream - totally delicious!
For those of you who watch Rove on a Friday night you will be familiar with Hamish & Andy? Well apparently Hamish & Andy had just been at the Pie-o-neer 2 weeks earlier as apparently they are doing a USA road trip TV show.
Now another strange & wonderful part to Pie Town was the Toaster House.
The Toaster house is a 4 brm log cabin that a couple who now live just out of pie town, have opened up for hikers & bikers to stay in - free of charge.
It has beds , hot showers, washing machine, wood stove & even chickens living out the back? And as you could imagine a lot of interesting ‘nick - knaks’ that people had left during there stay.
We all stayed the night here & the hot showers were a blessing after 2 days in dusty winds.
Megan (the waitress) came around after dinner with some fresh baked cookies & to see how we all were getting on & bought her guitar & sung us some song which was really cool.
DISTANCE: 73.39km
AVERAGE: 17.3kmkm
RIDE TIME: 4.13hrs
ASCEND: 475mtrs
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